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Annie-one recognise this boozer? | Auntie Annie's Porter House
IT’S not easy to imagine Auntie Annie’s Porter House in Kentish Town Road with chandeliers, marble floors, diamante-studded walls and a grand piano.
So you’ll understand my disbelief when I visited the freshly revamped... > more |
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Welcomed, but the men still get a frosty reception - LATE-NIGHT summer skinny-dippers aside, the Heath Ladies’ Pond has always been man-free. So last ...>more
Omega spells out the end of an era in Gothic fashion- I RECEIVED a macabre letter recently, complete with skulls as a figurehead, informing me of the death of ...>more
Two natural-born fighters slug it out over their idea of justice - HELENA Kennedy was on home territory when she chaired a debate in Glasgow on Friday evening... > more
Farewell to George, and a real local shop - TWO observations sprang to mind when I heard about the closure of a family-run store in York Rise, Dartmouth Park...>more
An armed copper pointed to No 11 - “JUST give a rap on the door!” suggested a heavily-armed policeman. I was standing outside No 10 Downing... > more
Rose, the outspoken educator who inspired everyone she met - IT was one of those moments when you know you are in the presence of someone... > more
Clearing out old folks’ homes is a lot easier than clearing up the scandal - WHY is the Town Hall so desperate to keep a report secret that officials have used ...>more
Aggressive’ – the best compliment a journo can get“ - YOU are the worst journalist I have ever met. The most aggressive man I have ever met in my life.” With a...>more
Picasso’s science and art in perfect harmony - I THOUGHT Banksy started it all, but this week I discovered Picasso also liked to turn a wall into a canvas. Professor ...>more
The Charmer deserved more in old age- A COLLEAGUE was sitting next to the veteran Sunday Times reporter Brian Glanville at the Spurs game against ...>more
Like a Watchtower, Dr Miller? I KNOW exactly how writer Alan Bennett must have felt when he heard a Jehovah Witnesses blitz hitting his Camden Town street.>more
Newsreader Richard is a Young One again - ONE of the original cast members from a Cliff Richard film has reprised his role 46 years later for a Highgate theatre...>more
Illtyd’s date with 007 - OUR literary editor Illtyd Harrington was enjoying a spot of classical music at his London home on Friday morning when the phone rang. > more
Through the drizzle, signs of victory on the horizon - HEAD down and umbrella high against the heavy rain, I made my way across the soaked grass and muddy... > more
Welcoming home the painter Prodigal Son - I DON’T recall ever beginning a story like this before, but I feel I am being pretty accurate when I sum up a new... > more
A bloody reminder of war - HE stood in his white cassock, his shoes slightly sinking into the tree bark laid like a carpet in front of the Cenotaph. > more
Gordon Bennett! His works are finally being appreciated - READERS may recall a story I featured a few months ago about the sale of 500 paintings by... > more
Alan Coren’s last laugh in Camden Town - ALAN Coren, the brilliant humourist and broadcaster, who died last Friday aged 69, is, I now discover... > more
The Wonder of a bond that forged a love less ordinary - IF love endures you can find it in two plain benches that stand side by side in a leafy square in Bloomsbury.>more
The grim face of a bidder at an auction - AS his glasses slipped to the end of his nose, he looked anxious. > more
Inmate art after brush with the law - ART by prisoners – some of them serving long sentences – is becoming the rage among collectors, I hear.The latest exhibition...>more
Edinburgh was worth waiting for - ANOTHER confession: I have always been a bit of a late developer. How else can I explain why I never went to the Edinburgh ...>more
Whittington could be A&E casualty - HAS the Whittington hospital been put at risk by the latest reforms proposed for the National Health Service in London? > more
‘Batman’ headteacher gets a special send-off - I RECEIVED a telephone call as I sat at my desk on Saturday afternoon wondering what the hell I was doing there... > more
An artist I should have known – the story of my Freudian slip - I WAS leaving St Bride’s Church off Fleet Street at the end of a memorial service for the famous... > more
Guilty pleasures of a Law Lord - I’VE met Law Lord Stephen Sedley several times over the years, but I never knew until I read a piece of his in the London Review... > more
Blimey! The Empire strikes back - IT was a strange moment. I felt I was witnessing something that could be described as the Empire Strikes Back! > more
Mystery art dealer bags 20 Bennett works - I HEARD a mysterious art dealer turned up at the recent auction of paintings by the Swiss Cottage artist Gordon... > more
It’s curtains for single-sex wards promised by Blair - I’M pretty sure there’s one topic that was never mentioned when Tony Blair paid a flying PR visit to... > more
Docs consider union over online ‘disaster’ - JUDY King, a cancer researcher at the Royal Free, left the High Court yesterday (Wednesday) a disappointed... > more
It’s frame and fortune for the kids from tough estates - SOMETHING happened during my journey yesterday morning (Wednesday) on the 274 bus just after... > more
Blair’s hush hush visit to say thanks to UCL staff - TONY Blair paid a sneak visit on Monday to the University College Hospital London where an operation... > more
Our doctors are sick of Hewitt’s jobs fiasco - IS health secretary Patricia Hewitt burning the candles at night to try and find jobs for an estimated 10,000... > more
Barbican bash shows winners take the bus - I BUMPED into actor Kenneth Cranham at the Barbican Library’s 25th birthday party on Monday where he was... > more
Dobbo has some advice for the Canadian health service - MY attention has been drawn to the other side of the Atlantic, where Canada’s Toronto Star... > more
Cough up, doc say Free rules - MAKING relatives of patients, doctors and nurses pay parking charges has netted the Royal Free hospital in Hampstead... > more
Miliband is Paxmanned by the littlest inquisitors - HE wasn’t on a campaign trail but it must have seemed like that when environment minister David Miliband... > more
Doctor in the house is from Poland, Greece and Italy - I HAVE discovered that the medical profession is suffering from the ‘Polish-plumber’ syndrome. > more
Style and substance which ran in this literary family - WITH the death of Jack Gaster on Monday has gone the last link with a host of great writers and literary... > more
The actor will see you now... - IT’S a part made for actor Leslie Phillips, star of Carry on Nurse. But remarkably this role comes on the NHS... > more
Burman’s dark material - HAVE you ever wondered what celebrities and politicians are really thinking as they flash their big smiles at you in the press? > more
Two unsung heroines - HEROISM is a word I would use to describe Jill Pay, a woman I have known for many years. > more
The NHS can only get better - THE National Health Service is overflowing with doctors.
No one has to wait for an operation. > more
Roberts lust for life -
AS I moved among the guests who packed the West End gallery and the tinkling glasses of champagne on Tuesday night for the opening... > more
Too hard to say ‘yes’? - HE spoke in soft broken English, a face full of pain, and the 750 strong audience at Friends Meeting House in Euston on Tuesday was... > more
Buying health with wallets instead of at the ballot box - DO I detect a whiff of rebellion among doctors, nurses and hospital staff over the mess this government is... > more
Why is star Marc Bolan still waiting for a Blue Plaque? - I’VE got a beef against the system run by English Heritage that determines who is famous enough to... > more
The day the great TS Eliot took a young poet to task - THERE were more poets to the square foot at a gathering on Tuesday than I have ever seen before. > more
I’d love to tell you what the doctors said... but I can’t - FACED with unemployment junior doctors are using raw language on their internet message board to lambast... > more
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